Hi all

I have decided to start up a personal blog as well. I get a few complaints from people who don’t care about my personal life, and therefore, I will be moving personal blog entries to my new blog at http://jan.eliasen.dk – with an RSS feed at http://jan.eliasen.dk/syndication.axd

This blog will NOT change! Well… personal blog entries will not appear anymore, but other than that, I will still be blogging about technological abnormalities, funny things, strange things, errors, and what not…

So, for Jan, the person, go see http://jan.eliasen.dk

Thanks

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eliasen

Hi everyone.

I have just upgraded the software on my blog to dasBlog version 1.9.7174.1.

I hope it has been smooth for you all, and if you notie any difficulties, please let me know.

Later, I will upgarde to dasBlog 2.0, which has been out forquite some time, but one step at the time, ight? :-)

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eliasen

Hi everyone

Well, after 7 months at thy:data it seemed clear to me, that thy:data wasn't the place I wanted to work. Luckily at the same time, my old employer WM-data, that has changed its name to Logica, was searching for someone exactly with my skills. So it didn't take long for us to reach an agreement, and therefore, on the 1'st April, I am starting at Logica.

I am really looking forward to this - I will be going back to all my old colleagues, and my assignments will vary much, going from presale, writing quotes and promoting Logica to Microsoft to actual design and development of large integration projects, based on BizTalk, .NET3.0 and stuff.

Just 2 weeks to go...

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eliasen

Hi

Finally(!) I found time (Well, I should probably have done something else...) to review the design of my eliasen.dk homepage. It was awful, black and very much outdated.

The new design is better, updated, brighter, happier, implemented in .NET and much more :-)

If you have comments about it, feel free to send them to me.

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eliasen

Hi

Well, the time has come for me to start running again.

11 years ago (when I was a soldier), I was quite the runner. My best times are 5 km in 17:30 and half a marathon (21,0975 km) in 1:32:46.

Since then, the weight has come up, as the amount of exercise went down :-).

Anyway, I have lost about 7kg in the last 3-4 months, and now was the time to start running again... and today was the first time.

A local fitness center had an offer for new members, that I have taken, so not only did I run today for the first time in a very long time, I also did it on a running machine. That took some getting used to! :-) I managed to get the damn machine running, but then it stopped... then I started it again... and then it stopped. Probably next time I will get some help figuring out how to set the machine appropriately. The run itself went fairly well... around 7km. I will have to bring some music the next time, though.

It felt pretty weird, that I did some interval training, where the maximum speed (16 km/h) was just about the same speed as I ran for an hour without breaks in my earlier years (15 km/h) :-)

So, any goals, Jan? Yes, off course. I have a couple;

1. I would like my average time to run 1 km to be about 4 minutes.
2. At "Limfjordsløbet" (14 km) at the end of May (2008 :-) ), I want to run faster than a friend of mine called Tom. Also, running faster than my old boss Anne would be nice :-). 4 minutes per kilometer would take care of both :-)
3. At some point, I want to run a marathon. I will wait a couple of months to set any specific dates, times, etc. for this one, since I am really in no shape to guess right now :-)

My legs are fine, I believe.. but perhaps tomorrow I will edit that part out of this blog post :-)

The plan now is to run every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday on average.. sometimes it will be Wednesday instead of Tuesday and so on.

Wish me luck...

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eliasen

Hi everyone

Right now I am attending the Quicklearn BizTalk 2006 R2 Deep Dive course. I have taken their BizTalk 2004 deep dive and 2006 deep dive earlier, and now the time has come to the R2 one.

The last two times I was taught by John Callaway, and this time it is Alan Smith.

Basically, if you feel like taking a BizTalk course, that goes deeper than the normal courses, I highly recommend the quicklean course.

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eliasen

Hi

Inspired by my post some weeks ago about me mending a fuse on our car, I really have outdone myself this time.

First of all, I have changed a light bulbe on my parents car.

Secondly, I have exchanged the dripping faucet in our kitchen for a brand new none-dripping one. It was actually quite a mess, and after a couple of trial-and-errors, I got it working. So now we have a new faucet in the kitchen - it doesn't drip, and I made the switch!

:-)

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eliasen

Hi all

This isn't about BizTalk, .NET or anything else technical. This is about ME!

The other day I mended a fuse in our car.

Really? you might say.. so what? Well, to me this is a big deal :-) I don't like getting dirty hands - I generally never do anything practical around the house... I am lousy at it, I hate it, and I would rather pay someone else to do it.

But then, the back light on the car stopped working. I changed the light bulbe, which in itself took me about 2 hours, including driving to the gas station to buy a new bulbe... and then it turned out the original bulbe wasn't broken. That sucked! Then I decided I had to take the car to the mechanic... but a friend asked me if I had checked the fuses. Well, duh... off course not - how would I do that? So with the manual in one hand and a screwdriver (YES, a screwdriver... me... a screwdriver...) in the other hand, I found the fuse that wasn't working anymore. I drove, once again, to the gas station, bought a new one (approximately one dollar) and put it into place. And now the back lights are working again.

WOW! What en experience, eh? :-)

So after reading this, you might still think: "Is this guy crazy? All this fuzz about mending a fuse (Thanks to Mads Orbesen Troest for telling me how to say this in English)? YES! It's a bg deal! :-)

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eliasen

Today, I discovered, that google groups can tell me how many posts I have made to newsgroups.

I switched profile at some point in my newsgroup career, so there are two profiles to watch:

This one (my first) and this one (my current).

Quite a lot of posts, actually - no wonder I get tired every now and then :-)

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eliasen

Well well - a week ago, I finally decided it was time to start running again. In my earlier days, I was quite the runner, but the last 10 years or so, I have really been lazy :-S

Anyway, I ran 4,82 kilometers last tuesday, and 4,82 kilometers last thursday. Things went faily well, so yesterday it was time to run just a little bit faster.

BUT, after 4 kilometers or so, I teared a muscle :-(

So now I am not running... I am not even walking like a man :-(

I hope to be able to run again in a couple of weeks :-S

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eliasen, who isn't running anymore.